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Brad Garlinghouse Lands at YouSendIt

File-sharing start-up YouSendIt tapped Brad Garlinghouse, a well-known technology executive who previously worked at AOL and Yahoo, as its new chief executive.

Mr. Garlinghouse, 41 years old, is widely known around Silicon Valley for writing “The Peanut Butter Manifesto” when he was at Yahoo last decade. In the now-famous memo, Mr. Garlinghouse said Yahoo shouldn’t spread itself so thin and should focus on a few key areas.

In 2009, Mr. Garlinghouse joined AOL to lead its Silicon Valley office and its Internet and mobile communications, before leaving earlier this year. Since then, he has been widely courted for new jobs.